Oh Mr Amazon, with this cheap box set / bargain item, etc...

jewel cases with a cheap cardboard thing ..
nothing new/special ..

oh, and i got that neil young set. my first intro to the young catalogue.
reaction : 'oooh now i get it .. '

THESE ARE ALL VERY GOOD, BEWARE LOW AND HEROES ARE BOTH HALF INSTRUMENTAL.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_0_8?url=search-alias%3Dpopular&field-keywords=original%20album%20series&sprefix=origina%3B%2Caps%2C

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51q8BbSNwHL.jpg

Packaging is the usual cheap box with no booklet or notes or anything, but I just got this for £13 or something ^^^

I posted that link again here btw as I assumed most wouldnt be reading the funk listening club thread, Ordered the Slave and Curtis Mayfield sets.
Theres loads more I'd want tho like the Warren Zevon, Chic, Dr John etc

The Zevon is pucker.

Yves Nat Beethoven sonata cycle and much more. V. good.

1930-1956: Comp Recordings
http://amazon.ca/dp/B000BS6Y74

Nat's is a really really great Beethoven cycle. Def recommended by me.

Hey man I am still awaiting your Brendel breakdown! Eagerly would be an exaggeration, but still interested in a remotely optimistic fashion. ;-)

Ha I forgot anyone had actually expressed interest in that. Will totally do.

It's weird trawling through those Original Album Series boxsets and bumping into so many multi-album major label artists who I just have no effing clue about

e.g. http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61G59g%2Ba0cL._SY355_.jpg

who the fuuh are pooh

wait is the first album on that box really called poohlover?

what a...

Also they completely messed up in not calling the third one Poohmerang.

Pooh is an Italian pop band formed in 1966 in Bologna. They are referred to in the plural as I Pooh (the Pooh).

snigger

More like poomeringue amirite?

oh man I need that Ribeiro box

everybody does! tbh i wasn't really all that familiar with her beforehand - so glad i took a punt on it cos it's right up my street, especially Paix

xposts yeah, I remember Record Collector doing an article on them, except it was in the April edition that year, and I just assumed it was an AFJoke.

Still, Vol 2, yeah?

oh man I need that Ribeiro box

It's a must have

There are 3 volumes of Pooh box sets and counting!

What I want to know is when is will they do one of these things for 70s Battiato? Maybe they have already?

Yeah, and let's have a Heldon one (or two) as well

^ amen to that

thought these boxes looked a bit cheap and nasty but Pooh has just changed my mind

I think some of those comps obscure to you are simply bands that were/are big locally, and the releases were meant mostly for the local market. For example, the Finnish branch of Warner has put out some "Original Album Series" comps for Finnish artists that probably no one knows outside of here.

NickB - Mr. Amazon can help you with your need for Battiato:
http://www.amazon.com/Gli-Album-Dautore-Franco-Battiato/dp/B003RDZ836/ref=sr_1_5?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1378394285&sr=1-5&keywords=battiato+box

Oh right, thanks! Fleurs 3 seems like a very out of place inclusion on there - 5 consecutive classic 70s albums and then a 2002 "collection of covers of Italian love songs"

The Shadows - The Early Years: 1959-1966

This 6CD collection includes every studio title recorded by the group from their very first efforts in early 1959, right up to the very end of 1966....

you bought it?

Tom is this worth buying? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Original-Album-Electric-Prunes/dp/B00DDVPXPK/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1378993339&sr=1-1&keywords=original+album+series

Well, I'm not Tom, but I have two of those albums for real, and I'm looking at this going hmmm...

umm last 2 albums : 'produced by david hassinger '

seems to contradict : http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Warner-Reprise-Recordings-Electric/dp/B000LP5DC4/ref=sr_1_22?ie=UTF8&qid=1378993642&sr=8-22&keywords=david+axelrod

hmmm I will hold off until someone says I should get it then (would have to wait til end of month anyway)

hah
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Original-Album-Classics-City-Rollers/dp/B00BBQD5FO/ref=sr_1_32?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1378995125&sr=1-32&keywords=original+album+series

http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-1921652-1252675494.jpeg

It depends on what you define as "Producer", really.

xpost but then again: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Oh-Yes-We-Can-Love/dp/tracks/B00EJU8ZZ4/ref=dp_tracks_all_1#disc_1

i've got that axelrod/electric prunes compilation, it is fantastic

yeah, the warners double cd set is fantastic.

the remastering brings out the depth, and the instrumentals are worthy of entry fee alone.

that boxset of prunes will probably not be using the remastered editions (something i have found with a few of these cheap-n-easy boxsets).

re hassinger vs axelrod : well, a little quick research reveals that hassinger 'owned' the electric prunes name, so i guess he can do what he likes re credits.

suspect that this is at the root of a lot of the chaos that surrounded the prunes.

Ry Cooder 11CD box set for 26 quid:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/1970-1987-Album-Box-Set-Cooder/dp/B00F8OV4HQ

Any particularly good new classical / opera box sets released in the last few months? I have an eye on the second RCA Living Stereo box but that's not out until February.

I like to keep an eye on the Amazon warehouse website with a search on VINYL as that often throws up new releases that might have a bent corner or slight damage to the cover, its all covered by amazon guarantee and eligible for free shipping, and most of the stuff I have got has had little difference from the new version, only it's at least 30% off.

Just bought the Royksopp Late Night Tales on double 180g vinyl for £9.50.

previously they had a few of the Pink Floyd vinyl remasters going cheap that I picked up.

Picked up the 14-disc box set of all Leontyne Price's arias and duets on RCA for £23, which is great value.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Leontyne-Price-Complete-Album-Collection/dp/B005D4Y6TY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1388851784&sr=8-1&keywords=leontyne+price

Tempted by the 70-disc Callas but i know there would be some chaff on there.

That Price set looks lovely!

Have been eyeing up this Britten box for ages, maybe this year I'll do the deed and actually buy it:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Benjamin-Britten-The-Collectors-Edition/dp/B001EOOC3W

There is a 66 disc complete works box too, but that might be overdoing it somewhat

Complete Britten decca is a can't lose proposition IMO. There is sooo much great stuff outside the operas.

This year's various composer Decca Sound - The Analogue Era box has a bunch of my favorite shit in it too.

Most of the recordings Britten himself conducted/oversaw/played on are on Decca, right? Am I a rockist in thinking that the versions where Britten and/or Peter Pears were involved are the definite ones? How do the EMI versions compare to those?